From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit d9b22cf9f5466a057f2a4f1e642b469fa9d73117 ] When a filesystem is created using: mkfs.ext4 -b 4096 -E stride=512 <dev> and we try to allocate 64MB extent, we will end up directly in ext4_mb_complex_scan_group(). This is because the request is detected as power-of-two allocation (so we start in ext4_mb_regular_allocator() with ac_criteria == 0) however the check before ext4_mb_simple_scan_group() refuses the direct buddy scan because the allocation request is too large. Since cr == 0, the check whether we should use ext4_mb_scan_aligned() fails as well and we fall back to ext4_mb_complex_scan_group(). Fix the problem by checking for upper limit on power-of-two requests directly when detecting them. Reported-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index da268894e7c7..6f51f016f80b 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -2113,8 +2113,10 @@ ext4_mb_regular_allocator(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac) * We search using buddy data only if the order of the request * is greater than equal to the sbi_s_mb_order2_reqs * You can tune it via /sys/fs/ext4/<partition>/mb_order2_req + * We also support searching for power-of-two requests only for + * requests upto maximum buddy size we have constructed. */ - if (i >= sbi->s_mb_order2_reqs) { + if (i >= sbi->s_mb_order2_reqs && i <= sb->s_blocksize_bits + 2) { /* * This should tell if fe_len is exactly power of 2 */ @@ -2176,7 +2178,7 @@ ext4_mb_regular_allocator(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac) } ac->ac_groups_scanned++; - if (cr == 0 && ac->ac_2order < sb->s_blocksize_bits+2) + if (cr == 0) ext4_mb_simple_scan_group(ac, &e4b); else if (cr == 1 && sbi->s_stripe && !(ac->ac_g_ex.fe_len % sbi->s_stripe)) -- 2.11.0